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Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
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Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#42Cracking the Code Interview is a great book and excellent for practice and brushing up. But I have found leet-code questions terrible for actually interviewing candidates. A lot of them boil down to whether the candidate knows the specific trick or can regurgitate the memorized solution. (Maybe I am just bitter because I have more than once bombed a leet-code interview myself) I interview a lot of people and my go-to…
Leet Code style questions are a shorthand assessment for two things: 1. Raw mental horsepower 2. The ability to just repeatedly do focused learning, aka just grinding And sure, it probably does favor #2 these days - but that is a critically important skill. You can trade one for the other, but everybody has some amount of both, and these questions figure out, roughly, your computed aggregate score of these. They have…
It's def not "Raw mental horsepower" it's more knowing an obscure algorithmic trick.
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leet Code style questions are a shorthand assessment for two things: 1. Raw mental horsepower 2. The ability to just repeatedly do focused learning, aka just grinding And sure, it probably does favor #2 these days - but that is a critically important skill. You can trade one for the other, but everybody has some amount of both, and these questions figure out, roughly, your computed aggregate score of these. They have…
It's def not "Raw mental horsepower" it's more knowing an obscure algorithmic trick.
People love to say things like this. In my experience on both sides of these coding interviews in FAANG companies, the questions are basically never algorithmically intensive.
The furthest I've ever seen it go in practice: binary search, BFS/DFS, hash tables. I've never seen any more obscure algorithmic trick than standard uses of these algorithms and data structures.
I'm not saying leetcode doesn't have more insane questions, but interviews tend to be straightforward.
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#44Thank you for this. Some people are critical of coding tests but I do this there is a point: namely to weed out people who can't code. Am I the only one that interviewed people with lengthy resumes full of programming experience and when I asked them to do a simple programming exercise they fell flat on their face? I've seen experience in C, gave them take home two hour exam and they couldn't even get anything to com…
> namely to weed out people who can't code.
You don't need Leetcode style tests to weed those out. Much simpler problems will do it.
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#45I wonder which other professions or trade ask people to perform infront of them in a simulated env as a filter criteria.
Actors for sure with auditions and maybe maybe chefs, male pornstars.
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#46'Principal' developer at my last place spent 100 consecutive days grinding leetcode. Shortly after had an interview where they made him do a leetcode test live and he failed it. The whole thing is broken.
It's a whole separate skill to be able to code with an audience, let alone an audience who is judging you. I could forgive a non-technical interviewer not knowing this but surely someone who is a dev themselves understands the very real performance anxiety. It's bonkers why we do this to people— the best I've seen is the in person talks about their experience, architecture, problems they've encountered and how they solved them and then either code samples from their public code if they have some or a short take-home assignment if they don't.
They could cheat on the take-home but it isn't meant to be difficult and you hopefully figured out at the in-person that they're someone who wouldn't need to bother cheating.
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#47'Principal' developer at my last place spent 100 consecutive days grinding leetcode. Shortly after had an interview where they made him do a leetcode test live and he failed it. The whole thing is broken.
Or the interview was about more than just leetcode and they just weren’t that good.
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#48I would like to give a try, but I am getting this for India:
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Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#49I wonder which other professions or trade ask people to perform infront of them in a simulated env as a filter criteria. Actors for sure with auditions and maybe maybe chefs, male pornstars.
Only male?
Re: Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
#50'Principal' developer at my last place spent 100 consecutive days grinding leetcode. Shortly after had an interview where they made him do a leetcode test live and he failed it. The whole thing is broken.
Principal Engineer level shouldn't even be tested on leetcode. There are far more important things to know about that candidate.